I couldn’t save my family. Why save myself?

The doctor who lost his wife and five children in a house blaze has told for the first time of his rescue bid

‘I saw my son suffocating’, says Dr Abdul Shakoor, who is now in Karachi (Insiya Syed)

A DOCTOR who survived a house fire in which his wife and five children died
has spoken for the first time of his desperate efforts to save them.

Police are treating the deaths in October last year as murder after
discovering that the house in Harlow, Essex, had been burgled before the
fire started.

There have been no arrests and police have yet to discover a clear motive.

In an emotional interview in The Sunday Times Magazine today, Abdul Shakoor,
45, describes how he jumped from the first floor of the burning house to
call for help and was then unable to get back in through the smoke to rescue
his family.

The doctor recalled being woken by a bang and fumbling in the dark for his
phone and glasses before going to the landing. “I opened . . . and I saw . .
. very difficult situation . . . my son . . . suffocating, so I forget
everything